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Advice on BSOD on xp

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maidaa

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Older custom made comp, ECS 945g board, Pentium D. Award BIOS
BSoD on loading XP. (how do I stop the comp on the BSoD screen, it shows only for a fraction of a sec.)
Disconnected everything not needed for booth, still BSoD.
Booth to safe mode, BSoD
Booth to XP disc, BSoD on starting windows, even without hhd.
With a different power supply, BSoD
Running Ubuntu from CD, no problem
New mother board, exactly the same model, BSoD

What the next, new CPU?
 
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maidaa said:
Older custom made comp, ECS 945g board, Pentium D. Award BIOS
BSoD on loading XP. (how do I stop the comp on the BSoD screen, it shows only for a fraction of a sec.)
Disconnected everything not needed for booth, still BSoD.
Booth to safe mode, BSoD
Booth to XP disc, BSoD on starting windows, even without hhd.
With a different power supply, BSoD
Running Ubuntu from CD, no problem
New mother board, exactly the same model, BSoD

What the next, new CPU?
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Are you using integrated graphics? Do you have a sound card? Can you try just one stick of ram?
 
There should be a setting in BIOS which will not reboot on fatal errors, that should help you capture BSOD screen details

I got similar error when I changed mobo, the new mobo kept doing that, it was coz of a bad mobo however updating the chipset driver did fix the problem to some extent. Did you change mobo or any chipset driver or anything like that? Is it a abit mobo?

Other possibility is the HDD, try booting from Linux Live CD, if everything works well... you will know its the HDD for sure
 
maidaa said:
(how do I stop the comp on the BSoD screen, it shows only for a fraction of a sec.)
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Press F8 like you're going into safe mode, choose the option "disable automatic reboot on system failure"
You will then be able to read the BSoD. Depending on when it occurs while reading the XP CD, it could either be bad RAM (which you've already tried), bad/scratched/dirty installation CD, bad disc drive or an issue with the disk controller, if it's set to SATA/AHCI mode.
 
BSoD; "Unmountable Boot Volume"
1.The file system is damaged and cannot be mounted. - why would the comp crash on booting from XP disk?
2.You use a standard 40-wire connector cable to connect the UDMA drive to the controller instead of the required 80-wire, 40-pin cable. - Did change to a new cable , BSoD
3.The basic input/output system (BIOS) settings are configured to force the faster UDMA modes. - On the old MB and new MB , BSoD
 
Put the drive in another PC and run chkdsk /r on it (if drive letter was e:, the command would be chkdsk e: /r). In most cases, this will fix a ton of errors and your system should be able to boot back up again.
I can't remember seeing that error when booting the XP CD but theoretically it could be trying to read your hard drive, encountering a corrupted file system and then crashing.

If the system just started displaying this error after working previously, I would suspect a bad hard drive. There aren't many other reasons why this would happen.
 
Up and running now!
MB was defective and booth ini was corrupted
The key was to be able to read BSoD

Thanks! ; nitrous9200, DesiPower, MagnusTheBrewer

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